Scottish legal authorities have suspended a part-time judge linked to collapsed hedge fund Heather Capital. Sheriff Peter Watson was suspended from office at the start of last week, according to a statement on the Judicial Office for Scotland’s website.

Twelve people were killed Wednesday and several others injured as masked gunmen stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French President François Hollande called the shootings a terrorist attack. Attacks in the past 20 years have taken place in other European countries including Spain, Norway and Belgium.

The disappearance of an Air Algérie flight adds to a litany of air incidents in the space of a week that has pulled a dark cloud over global air travel, even as statistics show commercial aviation is safer than it ever has been.

Obama outlined the next phase of his administration's counterterrorism efforts, detailing tighter standards for the use of unmanned drone strikes and making the case for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay in a speech Thursday. Here is the transcript of the speech as delivered, including comments from a protester who interrupted the speech toward the end.